Definitions for volition

volition vo·li·tion

Spelling: [voh-lish-uh n, vuh-]
IPA: /voʊˈlɪʃ ən, və-/

Volition is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in volition (iilnootv).

Definitions for volition

noun

  1. the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing:
  2. a choice or decision made by the will.
  3. the power of willing; will.

Origin of volition

1605-15; Medieval Latin volitiōn- (stem of volitiō), equivalent to vol- (variant stem of velle to want, wish; see will1) + -itiōn- -i

Examples for volition

volition is surely an act of the mind, with which we are sufficiently acquainted.

No, she said, she had come to pray at the Kotel of her own volition, no one put her up to it.

She opened the outer door, and Mattie had no volition but to go.

It seemed to have a vast inorganic life of its own, a volition and a whim.

Normally, dogs and cats and humans seem to be guided by some kind of volition – but of course that may be flattering ourselves.

When would those states have integrated of their own volition, because it was the right thing to do?

So women, you see, are not human beings with agency and volition about their sexuality in Huckabee Land.

But then you have the women who go into the trade of their volition.

They talk about having faith, as if it could be done by an act of volition.

Miss Georgie did not often send that last word of her own volition.

Word Value for volition
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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